YOURSAY | ‘PKR president Anwar Ibrahim should seriously wake up the party's politicians to counter these lies. ’
Zahid: 'Indebted' Anwar needs DAP for his goal, sees them as always right
Anonymous 770241447347646: Attacking DAP is just a strategy to unite the Malays. Umno and PAS have run out of issues to raise or use against Pakatan Harapan.
So, they are bluffing the people by saying that the Harapan administration is controlled by DAP.
The strategy is effective upon the kampung people. Even educated individuals are fooled by these statements.
PKR president Anwar Ibrahim should seriously wake up the Malay politicians in PKR to counter these lies. Otherwise at the next election, the combination of Umno and PAS will sweep many of the Malay seats.
These statements can be heard from most PAS and Umno leaders at every instance or chance they get.
Gerard Lourdesamy: Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is talking rubbish as usual. The entire Umno-PAS narrative since the 14th general election has been predicated on the supremacy of the Malay race, the superiority of Islam, and the empowerment of the royal institution beyond what is permitted in the Federal Constitution.
Isn't the MCA by definition 100 percent Chinese? So, what is so different about DAP, which in reality has a sizable number of Malays and Indians amongst their ranks?
The DAP ideology of a Malaysian Malaysia does not envisage abrogating Articles 3, 152, 153 and 181 in the Federal Constitution that is the core of our system of governance and social foundation.
What the DAP is championing is equal protection, fairness, justice and equitable treatment of the racial and religious minorities in this country.
In fact, what the DAP has been advocating all these years is sufficiently articulated in the Constitution itself if one looks at Articles, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 136, 152 (1) (a) and (b) and 153 (4), (5), (7), (8) and (9).
It is Umno-PAS that has distorted the Constitution and the so-called “social contract” without any regard for the Reid and Cobbold Commission reports, and argued that there exists a three-class stratification of the citizenry in this country namely (i) Bumiputera Malay/Muslim at the apex; (ii) Bumiputera non-Malay/Muslim (who are increasingly being enticed to become Muslim) below the first class; and the others who are tolerated but not accepted as equal citizens.
Then you have every aspect of public and private life in this country being dominated and dictated to by Islamic beliefs, practices, values and norms despite 40 percent of the population being non-Muslim and a sizeable number of East Malaysian Muslims who practice a more moderate, open, and tolerant form of Islam, and by extension giving Islam a position that is far beyond what was envisaged in Articles 3, 11 and 12 of the Constitution. Therein lies the paradox.
David Dass: There was a time when Umno was a moderate party committed to the interest of all Malaysians. Things changed after the riots of 1969.
It was considered necessary to accelerate the development of the Malays.
That by itself was not a bad thing. But the program was premised on the assumption that all Chinese and Indians were well-off.
It ignored the poor of amongst these communities. The poor Indian Malaysians who were dependent on estate employers and government for jobs and housing were sidelined. And in the end, abandoned and marginalised.
After the formation of Malaysia, the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak were also ignored. It is hard not to reach the conclusion that that was because they were mainly Christian.
Of course, there were other factors. Betrayal and corruption of their own leaders for starters. In the end, even Umno lost direction. Its leaders did well but not the poor Malays.
All leaders must think of all Malaysians. Not just the people who share their own ethnicity and religion.
Minorities do not have the clout to look after themselves. The majority cannot have everything for themselves. That would be unjust and plain wrong. It would make nonsense of our Constitution and its guarantee of equality and freedom.
Umno must find its way back to the moderate path of Tunku Abdul Rahman and Hussein Onn.
Mahathir is Malaysia's most admired man - YouGov study
Anonymous: I will only admire Dr Mahathir Mohamad when he cleans up the damage he has done to the country during his tenure as prime minister.
He started the mess: cronyism, nepotism, racism, messing up the education system, curbing the judicial system, and chaining the freedom of the press.
What is to admire in a man who destroyed this country? I will salute him when he cleans up the mess he has created.
Malaysian United: Good for him, but I wouldn't say I “admire” him. Not by a long shot.
I'd agree he's well-known and very influential but he's too snaky and untrustworthy to be admired.
In any case this is the type of findings you can expect when the sample size is only 1,075 respondents?
Being one notch ahead of the second most "admired" man in the form of a cosmonaut (not a "real" astronaut as reported) isn't exactly a great accomplishment either.
Anyway, to each his own. I personally admire people like the Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown for her excellent journalistic work, and Mariam Mokhtar especially for her courageous writings and frank assessment on issues not many people dare talk about.
Notanonymous: Funny. When 1,000 people say something you don’t like, you dismiss it for being a too small number.
But when one person says something unverified that you like, you act as if the nation has spoken.
Then you go on saying “we”, “the rakyat”, “everyone” plus other plural words available in your vocabulary.
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